Literacy Symposium

October 19, 2012October 19, 2012October 19, 2012 8:30am - 2:15pm

Keynote Speaker

Dr. Jeanne Paratore Professor and Program Contact, Literacy/Reading Education

Director, Reading and Writing Clinic

Boston University

Featured Authors Ed Shankman, Author & Dave O’Neill, Illustrator Sydelle Pearl, Author

Monica Somers, Author

Director Dr. Lynn Romeo

Monmouth University West Long Branch, NJ 07764

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8:30 ~ 9:00 Registration Light Refreshments

Anacon Hall, Rebecca Stafford Student Center

9:15 ~ 10:15 Keynote Address

Wilson Auditorium, Wilson Hall

10:30 ~ 11:45 Morning Workshops

12:00 ~ 12:45 Lunch Door Prizes Author Book Signings

Anacon Hall, Rebecca Stafford Student Center

1:00 ~ 2:15 Afternoon Workshops

• “Outstanding experience!

Cannot wait to implement

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classroom and share with

my colleagues!” • “What an enjoyable day!

Fantastic speakers and

extremely informative

workshops!! ”

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Jeanne Paratore

Jeanne R. Paratore is currently Professor of Education and Coordinator of the Reading Education and Literacy and Language Education Programs at Boston University. She directs the university-based reading and writing clinic that provides year-round academic support to school-aged children who are experiencing learning difficulties and she is research advisor to the Intergenerational Literacy Program, a family literacy program she founded in 1989 to support the English literacy learning of immigrant parents and their children. She is a former classroom teacher, reading specialist, and Title I director. She has conducted research and written widely on issues related to family literacy, classroom grouping practices, and interventions for struggling readers. She is also a co-author of one of the nation’s leading reading programs. Dr. Paratore is currently engaged in two funded studies: one examines the effects of a combination of on-site professional development and remote coaching of uploaded video on changes in teaching practices; the other examines practices that help teachers use educational media and technology in ways that increase children’s opportunities to learn. Dr. Paratore served as co-curriculum director of the award-winning children’s television series, Between the Lions. She was recently elected to the Reading Hall of Fame and she is the recipient of the New England Reading Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award and the International Reading Association’s Celebrate Literacy Award. She is a former member of the International Reading Association’s Board of Directors, and she is active in professional associations, presently as a member of the Board of the Literacy Research Association and chair of its Ethics Committee. She is a frequent speaker on literacy instruction and has presented at local, national, and international conferences as well as in school districts throughout the United States.

Featured Author/Illustrator

Ed Shankman, Author

Ed Shankman’s entire life has been one long creative project. He has been writing children’s books since he himself was a child. He has been a performing lead guitar player and an impassioned, if imperfect, painter. He is currently making the rounds with his most cherished project, a novel called the Backstage Man that was written over a period of three decades. Fittingly, perhaps, Ed has earned a living for most of his adult life as Creative Director at various advertising agencies, using his connection with the creative process to

help others make the most of their own creative potential. Prior to entering the advertising industry, Ed spent 7 years as a welder, having mastered the trade while living on an Israeli kibbutz in the late 1970s. Today, Ed lives in Verona, NJ, with his wife Miriam, who is the love of his life, and their two cats.

Dave O’Neill, Illustrator

Dave O'Neill is an illustrator and graphic designer. He began drawing when he was a child and is thankful that he never stopped. With his brain firmly anchored in cartoons, video games and pop culture, he moonlights as a comedian with Out of Order, a NJ-based improv comedy troupe. Dave updates a blog featuring his illustrations when he's not designing t-shirts for his online shirt shop, Swell-bot Industries. Throughout the years, Dave has worked with several agencies, the first of which is where he met Ed Shankman. Though he has applied his creative strengths to advertising and marketing alike, he admits that drawing children's books is the most rewarding. Dave resides in Montclair, NJ with Melinda, the super-cool girl he married. They are the proud owners of a keyboard she won on Double Dare.

Featured Authors

Sydelle Pearl, Author

Sydelle Pearl is an author, storyteller, and songwriter. She often incorporates original songs that spring from the multicultural and original

stories that she tells to preschool, elementary and family audiences. She also presents her original folksongs to adult audiences. A professional storyteller for nearly twenty years, Sydelle has her Bachelor’s degree in Education. She received her Master’s in Library Science from Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts and has worked as a children’s librarian. She has performed in schools, libraries, and festivals. Her children’s books include Elijah’s Tears: Stories for the Jewish

Holidays, Books for Children of the World: The Story of Jella Lepman, Hope Somewhere in America: The Story of a Child, a Painting, and a President, and her forthcoming book, Dear Mr. Longfellow: Letters to and From the Children’s Poet which will be published in October 2012. Sydelle creates a Teacher’s Guide for all of her books.

Monica Somers, Author

Monica Somers attended Colorado State University and Quinnipiac University where she received a BS in Allied Health Services with a concentration in Animal Science. After graduating, she worked for an animal hospital, multiple zoos, and interned for Jack Hanna. Monica eventually returned home to NJ to fight the sudden onset of a debilitating illness later diagnosed as RSD (Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy). While receiving treatment, she decided to pursue a Masters of Education at Monmouth. Today, Monica is a single mother and the sole owner of Adrenaline Gym in Sea Bright, NJ. Throughout her adult life, Monica was always surrounded by cats and dogs. One cat in particular, Java, inspired her to write her first book for children, O.W.E. (One World of Equals), published in 2012. This book is the first of what Monica hopes will be a number of sequels exploring difficult topics with children in the safe, enchanting world of animals.

MORNING WORKSHOPSMORNING WORKSHOPSMORNING WORKSHOPS

1. How to Use Technology and Not be Used by it: Media Literacy Across the Curriculum (6-12)

Andrew Forrest & Sara Van Ness, Red Bank Regional High School

- In our increasingly visually-stimulated and media-driven society, students are practically immersed in a digital world. This workshop will explore how teachers from all disciplines can incorporate media literacy in the classroom. Specific attention will be paid to the use of online newspapers, Blogger.com, YouTube.com, and Google.

2. Enhancing Literacy through Literature Circles

Cathleen Brenner, Wall Township Public Schools

- This workshop addresses how to use Literature Circles to engage students in developing reading skills and focuses on comprehension. Participants will learn how to organize and structure the Literature Circles, incorporating specific "roles" for each student at every meeting. There will be an emphasis on critical thinking, which fosters a better understanding of author's purpose, theme, literary elements, and the use of reading strategies for students in grades 2-8. Involving parents in the process will also be explored as well as how they can help students build schema, connections, and a love of literature.

3. Hope Somewhere in America: Telling Stories about African-American History and Culture using a Historical Fiction Picture Book as a Springboard (K-5)

Sydelle Pearl, Children’s Book Author and Story Teller

- Author Sydelle Pearl will describe how her book, Hope Somewhere in America: the Story of a Child, a Painting, and a President, can be used to tell stories about African-American history and culture for the elementary grades. She will discuss the inspiration for her book—the 1934 painting of a little African-American child entitled “Somewhere in America” by Robert Brackman and will then show other New Deal works of art that relate to the lives of famous African-Americans: Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Marian Anderson, and Zora Neale Hurston. Sydelle will demonstrate her multidisciplinary storytelling approach that involves singing, moving, creative dramatics, reading, writing, and drawing.

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4. The New Kindergarten Guidelines: Learning through Play!

Alyssa May, Jackie Rivera, & Michelle Leonardo, Red Bank Borough Public Schools

- Teachers from Red Bank Borough Public Schools will share their experience integrating the New Kindergarten Guidelines to establish a learning environment defined by a developmentally appropriate curriculum, collaborative learning, and diversified assessment focus on both self-regulation as well as academic skills.

5. Talking toward Literacy (6-12)

Bruce Preston, Shore Regional High School District

- Looking for a solid place to start transitioning the rigor of your classroom up to the Common Core State Standards? Looking to build better classroom discussions? Small group work falling flat? Teach your students how to talk! Close reading, meta-cognition, classroom discussions, and student-centered learning all start with rich classroom discussions. Participants will learn why this structured approach to classroom discussion improves student performance; how to develop a classroom environment that supports this expectation; how to use classroom talk as an assessment and grading method; and how to transition talking into better reading and writing skills. Best of all, it works for every subject and is well aligned to the expectations of the Common Core State Standards.

6. Using Poetry Journals in the Classroom to Teach

Grammar and Language Skills (K-3)

Kara Markiewicz, Middletown Township Public Schools

- What can you teach from a poem? Lots! This workshop will demonstrate ways to teach grammar lessons directly through poems as well as contractions, prefixes, suffixes and even comprehension skills such as making inferences and drawing conclusions. Also, ways to implement a poetry station in the classroom and Smart Board activities will be discussed.

AFTERNOON WORKSHOPSAFTERNOON WORKSHOPSAFTERNOON WORKSHOPS

1. Utilizing IEP Modifications in the Inclusion Classroom

Joe Vetrano, Neptune Township School District

- This workshop will provide participants with information and basic strategies on providing certain IEP modifications for special needs students. Emphasis will be placed on reading and writing in the middle/high school classroom and how technology can be used effectively.

2. The Magic of Rhyming Picture Books:

Demonstrating the power of imagination and pointing out the way to a rich inner life (P-5)

Ed Shankman & Dave O’Neill, Children’s Book Author and Illustrator

- Our ability to re-shape the world around us may have its limits. But with some discipline and imagination, we can each shape our own inner world to an extraordinary degree. Children who learn that lesson have access to a refuge of their own making – a place where they make the rules, judgments and decisions (and reap the rewards) – for the rest of their lives. Ed Shankman and Dave O’Neill will talk about the role that creativity has played in their own lives and the internal, personal rewards of leading a creative life. They will lead a discussion into strategies for inviting children to explore their own inner worlds, with an emphasis on rhyming books.

3. Comprehension Strategies for Students in Grades 3-5

Bernard Bragen & Heather Schwarz, Hazlet Township Public Schools

- This workshop will focus on specific strategies that students can employ to increase their retention and comprehension on all print material. The active reading strategies that will be reviewed at the workshop range from self-questioning techniques to vocabulary building strategies such as the L.I.N.C.S. model. Participants will leave this workshop with practical applications for immediate classroom use.

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4. Systematic Inquiry for Developing Literacy? How? With Action Research/Action Learning Processes—That’s how!

PJ Gruben, Danielle Parella, Anna Washack, & DaVisha Pratt, Asbury Park School District, & Shelia Baldwin, Monmouth University

- A Kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd grade teacher will provide their account of the transformation of their classrooms to cultures of inquirers and the impact on the literacy development of their diverse learners. Each teacher will share specific examples of student work to illustrate student literacy development.

5. Using Mentor Texts to Teach Writing

Christine Grabowski, Hazlet Township Public Schools

- Using children’s literature to teach writing provides models for good writing and sparks enthusiasm in young writers. This workshop will address how to use mentor texts to teach writing in the elementary classroom. Specific mentor texts will be presented.

6. Sustain-a-Literacy: Developing Responsible Readers and Writers (P-12)

Justin Soderholm, The Green School, NYC

- Your students may be prepared to ace their standardized exams, but are they prepared to face their generation’s greatest test of sustaining our nation’s existence on this planet? This workshop will explore how literacy-based strategies can be linked to performance tasks that not only develop students into fluent readers and writers, but into responsible citizens of the United States and of the Earth. Sample lessons, classroom materials, and examples of students’ work will be available, along with feedback that students shared with the teacher regarding each lesson. Additionally, ideas will be discussed as to how to link environmental sustainability and literacy to all academic content areas. Past, present, and future teachers of all grades and subject areas are welcome!

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